from Rare Visions and Roadside Attraction's blog:
"Saturday, September 16, 2006-- The real mission for the day was to find Reuben Sorensen in Redway. He's a Wisconsinite who hoboed around for years and ended up in Humboldt County. Reuben paints from visions that give him the images from which to begin. He's made hundreds of small papier mache cars that form a freeway perimeter (though he's never driven), paintings of basketball and baseball players sans heads ('can't draw faces well'), and a whole series of adventures centered around a mysterious red box and "headwrapping school". Oh, and Scrabble-styled letter arrays that scream to be deciphered even when they can't. Reuben went to considerable trouble to pull things out of storage and display them for us in and around the yard. And his friend Kate served up huge mugs of hot coffee, fruit and desserts, though somehow the luscious looking cheesecake never quite made it to the camera guy's mouth! We're still hearing about that one..."